Food Security Amid Environmental Degradation: A Legal Review of Equitable Food Governance

Ensuring food security amid accelerating environmental degradation and increasing disaster risks presents a complex governance challenge, particularly for developing countries vulnerable to climate, ecological, and socio-economic shocks. This article examines food security through the lens of equitable food governance, emphasizing the legal and institutional dimensions that shape food availability, access, and stability. Using a qualitative legal research method, the study critically analyzes Indonesia’s food governance framework in relation to environmental crises, climate change impacts, and social inequality. The analysis reveals that existing regulatory approaches remain fragmented and insufficiently responsive to environmental degradation, resulting in structural vulnerabilities within the food system. This study argues that law plays a strategic role in integrating environmental sustainability, social justice, and food security into a coherent governance framework. The findings demonstrate that equitable food governance requires regulatory reform oriented toward ecological protection, strengthened national food institutions, and the incorporation of good governance principles, including transparency, accountability, and public participation. By bridging legal analysis with environmental and food security discourse, this article contributes to the growing body of scholarship on food justice and offers a normative model for aligning food governance with environmental resilience and climate adaptation objectives.